Wrote the scenes I’d assigned myself to write and am feeling victorious just because they exist.
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I’m thinking about Ann Patchett and how she says our beautiful ideas are like butterflies, and when we write them down, we pin the butterflies to a board. BUT she says an imperfect but written piece is better than perfect and unwritten. One can be shared with others.
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I wish that not everything we touched had to die. Annie Dillard says touch it anyway.
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I fear I’m misrepresenting these incredible women. The bottom line is: write, create, build, even if the finished product can never match the perfection in your head.